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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 29–40.
Published: 01 February 2000
... examine the impact of local marriage markets’ educational composition on educational assortative mating and on how sorting varies with age. We estimate a discrete-time competing-risks model of educational sorting outcomes, using individual data from the NLSY and community descriptors aggregated from...
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Demography (2022) 59 (1): 349–369.
Published: 01 February 2022
...Acton Jiashi Feng Abstract Existing research on assortative mating has examined marriage between people with different levels of education, yet heterogeneity in educational assortative mating outcomes of college graduates has been mostly ignored. Using data from the 2010 Chinese Family Panel Study...
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Demography (2023) 60 (1): 227–254.
Published: 01 February 2023
...Kate H. Choi; Patrick Denice Abstract Prior work has examined the relationship between educational assortative mating and wives' labor market participation but has not assessed how this relationship varies by race/ethnicity. Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979, we...
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Demography (2014) 51 (3): 835–856.
Published: 09 May 2014
... and whites: educational attainment will increase the odds of interracial marriage for blacks but decrease those same odds for whites. This differential effect of educational attainment on interracial marriage is distinct and separable from overall educational assortative mating —the patterns of educational...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 449–476.
Published: 15 March 2012
... not fully account for the way migration affects educational assortative mating. References Agresti A. ( 2002 ). Categorical data analysis . Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley and Sons . Angoa Perez, M., & Fuentes Flores, A. (2006, April). Labor force patterns of Mexican women in Mexico...
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Demography (2012) 49 (3): 867–887.
Published: 26 May 2012
...Richard Breen; Signe Hald Andersen Abstract Many writers have expressed a concern that growing educational assortative mating will lead to greater inequality between households in their earnings or income. In this article, we examine the relationship between educational assortative mating...
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Demography (2015) 52 (4): 1219–1242.
Published: 13 June 2015
...Emily Rauscher Abstract Modernization theory predicts that rising education should increase assortative mating by education and decrease sorting by race. Recent research suggests that effects of educational expansion depend on contextual factors, such as economic development. Using log-linear...
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Demography (2010) 47 (2): 481–502.
Published: 01 May 2010
...Florencia Torche Abstract Educational assortative mating and economic inequality are likely to be endogenously determined, but very little research exists on their empirical association. Using census data and log-linear and log-multiplicative methods, I compare the patterns of educational...
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Demography (2021) 58 (2): 571–602.
Published: 01 April 2021
... dimensions of human and social development. In spite of this unique scenario, never has the social stratification literature examined patterns and implications of educational assortative mating for inequality in SSA. Using 126 Demographic and Health Surveys from 39 SSA countries between 1986 and 2016...
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in Educational Assortative Mating in Sub-Saharan Africa: Compositional Changes and Implications for Household Wealth Inequality
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Published: 01 April 2021
Fig. 3 Educational assortative mating (s parameter), by region of sub-Saharan Africa (top panel) and household location of residence (bottom panel). U = urban; R = rural. Source : Demographic and Health Surveys.
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in Educational Assortative Mating in Sub-Saharan Africa: Compositional Changes and Implications for Household Wealth Inequality
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Published: 01 April 2021
Fig. 4 Educational assortative mating (tau parameter), by region of sub-Saharan Africa (top panel) and household location of residence (bottom panel). U = urban; R = rural. Source : Demographic and Health Surveys.
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Demography (1998) 35 (3): 279–292.
Published: 01 August 1998
... women were no more or less likely, to marry than to cohabit with less-educated partners in 1970 and 1980. By 1990, however, educational assortative-mating patterns between these two types of unions were similar. In 1990, marriages and cohabitations involving women who were better educated than...
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Demography (2022) 59 (6): 2161–2186.
Published: 01 December 2022
...Fumiya Uchikoshi Abstract Research on educational assortative mating has devoted much attention to educational expansion but has been less focused on a concurrent trend of importance: growing differentiation among higher education institutions. In this study, I examine whether the bifurcation...
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Demography (2019) 56 (3): 835–862.
Published: 21 March 2019
... and changes in social and behavioral factors led to reduced mortality, inequality grew stronger and was reflected by more intense assortative mating, and the country underwent a massive educational expansion. Each of these factors influenced the formation and dissolution of first marriages over this period...
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Demography (2013) 50 (4): 1197–1216.
Published: 24 January 2013
...Martin Dribe; Paul Nystedt Abstract Several studies have shown strong educational homogamy in most Western societies, although the trends over time differ across countries. In this article, we study the connection between educational assortative mating and gender-specific earnings in a sample...
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Published: 10 June 2020
Fig. 2 Assortative mating by education, age, family SES, and caste from 1970 to 2012. Source : 2011–2012 India Human Development (IHDS).
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Demography (2018) 55 (3): 849–875.
Published: 24 April 2018
... is the norm (Qian and Lichter 2011 ; Schwartz 2013 ). Positive assortative mating has always been observed on the basis of ascribed characteristics (e.g., racial endogamy and age homogamy). However, rising levels of educational attainment among women (DiPrete and Buchmann 2013 ), along with declining...
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Demography (2012) 49 (2): 629–650.
Published: 27 March 2012
..., and continued schooling after marriage in the United States, the key to understanding trends in educational homogamy lies primarily in variation in assortative mating into first marriage. 30 1 2012 27 3 2012 © Population Association of America 2012 2012 Educational homogamy Assortative...
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Demography (2002) 39 (3): 435–453.
Published: 01 August 2002
... mating for all traits and across all types of couples. The positive assortative mating, however, is stronger for non-labor-market traits (e.g., age, education) than for labor-market traits (e.g., hourly earnings). Further, members of married couples are more alike with respect to most characteristics...
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Demography (2017) 54 (5): 1743–1772.
Published: 15 August 2017
... and personal earnings has led to greater improvement in the family standard of living for married men than for women themselves. Gender-specific changes in assortative mating are mostly responsible for this paradoxical trend. Because the number of highly educated women exceeds the number of highly educated men...
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